The days passed quickly, and everyone in the small town was busy just for three meals a day.
In the eyes of adults, young people come and go like the wind. They rush back and forth in the back alleys every day, sometimes carrying a bunch of fish, sometimes carrying a few pheasants, a few rabbits, and even clothes full of clothes.
With a basket full of water chestnuts, everyone knew that young Lin Zhao was working hard to make his life prosperous.
…
At noon that day, Lin Zhao was fishing by the stone bridge of Baiyu River. A little girl came jumping up and down, holding a colorful windmill in her hand, running back and forth on the stone bridge behind Lin Zhao.
Down.
Su Qingjiu, the only daughter of the Su family on the front street of the town. The Su family is considered a famous family in the town. Su Qingjiu's father, Su Liang, is said to be the commander of the Tianchi Army's Tiebu Camp and holds a high position. His mother was once a wealthy member of the Dachen Dynasty.
After the Chen Dynasty was destroyed, the descendants came to Tianchi Town, and the Su family was still one of the few famous families in Qianjie.
Su Qingjiu is six years old. She is a very cute and beautiful girl. Everyone in the town likes her. The elders affectionately call her Xiaojiuer. However, Su Qingjiu is not familiar with adults and does not like to play with them. She
The person I like the most is Lin Zhao. This big brother who hangs around Baiyu Creek and makes food every day is simply a treasure to Su Qingjiu. He has too many magical abilities and ideas.
"Brother Lin Zhao! Brother Lin Zhao!"
When Su Qingjiu ran back and forth on the stone bridge for the eleventh time, he sat down next to Lin Zhao, his face flushed, and said: "Brother Lin Zhao, why don't you buy the lobster? I'll exchange it for maltose, a piece of lobster."
maltose!"
Lin Zhao couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, but you should keep the maltose for yourself!"
As he spoke, Lin Zhao rolled up his trousers and went into the water. He avoided the area where Zhang Liucheng, that naughty boy, had pooped in dog poop. He dug holes at the edge of Baiyu Creek. Most of these holes were lobster holes.
That's correct, but people in the town don't seem to be interested in food like lobster. No one eats it at all. Even if they catch some, they just use it to feed the livestock.
Not long after, Lin Zhao took out six or seven lobsters and threw them all on the shore. Su Qingjiu chuckled like a silver bell and was not afraid of the shrimp claws. He started running wildly on the stone bridge one by one with his tender little hands.
She got up, happy and carefree. Lin Zhao didn't know when she left, but when she left, she quietly left a few pieces of maltose beside Lin Zhao and placed them on the stone pier.
Chewing a piece of maltose in his mouth, Lin Zhao continued fishing and his mood became better. Su Qingjiu's maltose was probably the only sweet taste Lin Zhao had tasted in his youth.
…
At noon, a girl came to the south gate of the town. She was very beautiful in a green dress. She had a fairy aura all over her body. She looked like a fairy who had walked down from the Lingshan Mountain.
With her fair hair and a long sword decorated with white jade dragon patterns in her hand, she was not afraid of strangers at all when she walked into the town. On the contrary, many children greeted her.
"Sister Zhao Yan is back!"
"OK."
The woman named Zhao Yan nodded with a smile, walked straight through the front street of the town, entered the back street, and disappeared into the Zhao family's mansion.
In the living room.
Zhao Jin has become a one-armed martial artist, and due to the serious injury, his mood is unstable. He has fallen from the blood-activating martial arts realm to the body-refining realm. It can be said that he failed in his efforts. He leaned back in the chair with a look of death on his face and looked at
The woman in green clothes looked at the entrance and just nodded politely: "Auntie..."
Zhao Yan frowned: "What's going on?"
On the side, Zhao Tai frowned and said: "Jin'er didn't know why he provoked the evil star Lin Zhao. Lin Zhao injured his jaw at the beginning. Later, the little beast got worse and took the opportunity to sneak attack while hunting in the mountains.
Jin'er, cruelly cut off one of Jin'er's arms, sister, you are a god practicing in the mountains, you have to make the decision for your only nephew."
"Lin Zhao?"
Zhao Yan was slightly startled: "That boy from the Lin family? He's not dead yet?"
"I'm not dead, I'm still alive and well!"
Zhao Jin looked resentful and said: "Now Lin Zhao has joined the Tianchi Army and served as a reserve. I heard that Chu Huaixi also made a special trip to visit and gave Lin Zhao five hundred coppers. Now he has no worries about food and clothing.
"
"Hmph~~~"
Zhao Yan sneered: "You can't kill a rat in the mud no matter how hard you step on it. Originally, our Zhao family and the Lin family are not in conflict with each other. Since Lin Zhao, a little beast, is so ruthless, don't blame our Zhao family for being unjust."
Already."
Zhao Taidao: "Sister, when are you going to kill him?"
"kill?"
Zhao Yan couldn't help but laugh. She looked at her brother with pitiful eyes, as if she were looking at a ridiculous ant, and said with a smile: "Why do you have to kill people? It's not necessary. People like Lin Zhao will die.
The only way he can survive is to die and let him die on his own, and we don’t even have to dirty our hands."
Zhao Tai was stunned for a moment and felt a little embarrassed: "Then... you can decide everything."
"Um."
Zhao Yan stood up, holding the long sword, and said with a smile: "After lunch, I will go to the back streets."
"good."
…
In the afternoon, the woman in green, holding a long sword, wandered around the town, returned to her hometown, walked around and looked around, spent a lot of money, and often took out a green clam to buy dozens of candied haws, and took the people in the town with her.
A group of children smiled and asked who would be willing to call Sister Zhao Yan and be rewarded with a candied haws. The children yelled one after another, and the adults in the town also watched the Zhao family's daughter return and nodded in greeting from afar with smiles on their faces.
It was almost dusk when Lin Zhao returned to his ancestral home.
Zhao Yan also happened to pass by the ancestral home of Lin Zhao's family, pushed the door open, and said with a smile: "Lin Zhao, do you still remember me?"
"ah?"
Lin Zhao, who was cleaning the fish bubbles, looked up, looked at it for a long time, and said with a smile, "It's Aunt Zhao Yan!"
"Haha, be good, you still remember me!"
Zhao Yan placed a bag of twists on the wooden table in front of Lin Zhao and said with a smile: "I have been practicing in the mountains for many years. I have just come back. I haven't been home for a long time. I will bring you something to eat."
"Yeah, thank you, aunt!"
Although Lin Zhao was worried about himself and Liang Zi of the Zhao family, it was indeed inconvenient for Zhao Yan to come out in person and invite him out directly.
"Lin Zhao!"
Zhao Yan squatted next to Lin Zhao, watching him killing fish, and said with a smile: "That boy Zhao Jin... has been spoiled by his parents since he was a child. Don't mind if he sometimes deliberately causes mischief.
Liangzi, I think forget it, he also broke his arm and apologized, so don’t argue with him anymore, after all, we are all children in a small town, we can’t see each other without looking up, don’t you agree?”
"right."
Lin Zhao smiled brightly and nodded: "Auntie is right!"
In fact, Lin Zhao secretly cursed in his heart: When I am a three-year-old child, how can I be fooled by just a few words? Zhao Jin's arm was chopped off, and half of his martial arts was broken. Just because of your Zhao family's family tradition, you Zhao Jin
Would Yan be so kind as to turn hostility into friendship?
Therefore, although his face was full of smiles, Lin Zhao became more wary.
…
"The house is well kept!"
Zhao Yan stood up, looked around Lin Zhao's ancestral house, and said with a smile: "Although the walls are empty, it is still clean."
Lin Zhao smiled and said: "Okay, okay..."
"Okay, I won't disturb you anymore, I'm leaving. The twists are delicious, don't waste them."
"Um."
Lin Zhao held the twists and sent Zhao Yan to the door. He smiled and bowed in front of several aunts and uncles on the street, saying: "Thank you, Aunt Zhao Yan, for the twists!"
"You bastard, you are a thief!"
Zhao Yan also secretly slandered herself and thanked herself in front of everyone for sending mahua, which also meant that if Lin Zhao was poisoned to death for eating mahua, the Zhao family would definitely be implicated. Zhao Yan could leave, Zhao Tai, Zhao Jin, etc.
People are destined to be held accountable by Chu Huaixi and other upper-level officials in Tianchiling, and may even die.
However, at the moment when she walked out of the Lin family's ancestral house, Zhao Yan gently flicked her sleeves, and a yellow talisman flew out from her long sleeves like a fallen leaf. It was escorted by a wisp of spiritual energy and floated to the jujube tree in Lin Zhao's yard. Just in time
It was stuck to the most hidden position on the jujube tree, and even Lin Zhao, a martial artist in the blood-activating realm, didn't feel it at all.
On the jujube trees, a series of pearl-like jujubes are still young, but they will be harvested in a month or two. Then there will be another bumper harvest. The dried jujubes can be used to make soup or porridge. Restaurants in the town
, restaurants also charge them.
…
After Lin Zhao finished handling the fish catch all day, he stretched out and saw a ragged child standing outside the door. He looked about six or seven years old. His hair had not been washed for a long time and was already wet.
It was knotted, and there were many bruises on his face, as if he had been beaten. The clothes on his body were extremely dirty, and he was extremely thin. With a look of longing on his face, he looked at the small basin of fish in Lin Zhao's hand.
"you……"
Lin Zhao rubbed his eyes, looked carefully for a while, and recognized it: "Little stone?"
"Um."
The child nodded repeatedly, with a glimmer of life in his eyes: "Brother Lin Zhao, do you still remember me?"
Xiao Shitou, named Shi Hu, had lived in a small town before. I heard that his father was a groom for the Tianchi Army. When Lin Zhao was eleven years old, Xiao Shitou lived in the small town for a year.
After that, he left with his father and has not been heard from since.
"come on in."
Lin Zhao stepped forward and pulled the little stone into the yard, frowning and said: "How did you end up like this? You are like a little beggar."
Little Shitou was bitter and his eyes were red, and he said: "I am now...I am a beggar now..."
"Why did it happen like this? Where is your father?"
"Daddy, he..."
Tears rolled down Xiao Shitou's eyes and he said: "One night half a year ago, I was bitten to death by a ghoul that broke into the village... I couldn't survive by myself, so I begged all the way back to the town, but everyone...
…No one recognizes me anymore, I haven’t eaten anything for three days…”
"knew."
Lin Zhao knew what it was like to be hungry, and he really couldn't bear it, so he said: "You stay here with me first. If I have something to eat, you will have something to eat. Don't worry."
Xiao Shitou burst into tears immediately: "Brother Lin Zhao..."
…
Not long after, Lin Zhao made a pot of fragrant rice, cooked a plate of garlic-fried mountain pork, and a plate of braised fish. He and Xiao Shitou each had a pair of chopsticks, and devoured a full meal. After that, they built a temporary
Small bed, let little stone have a good sleep.
It's night, and it's quiet.
"boom--"
A purple thunder fell from the sky and hit the jujube tree in Lin Zhao's ancestral house. In an instant, the jujube tree was scorched after being struck by lightning, and the upper leaves burned one after another.
…
"Um?"
In front of the window, the scholar who was reading by the moonlight raised his head slightly and looked at the direction of the lightning strike. A little anger suddenly appeared in his eyes: "Thunder talisman? Are you really a snake-hearted person?"
